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DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1980-1989 Comeback | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...knows what she wants and she gets it. I love the fact that she's bitchy." Murphy and her roommates also watch to keep up with fashion, commenting about which styles work. Furthermore, the group emphasizes the importance of predicting plot twists, such as Allison leaving Billy at the altar, and Kimberly exposing her bald head after her car accident...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: The Nighttime Drama Debate | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...highly public reign, not limited to words and gestures. Whether preaching from the throne of St. Peter or from some makeshift altar in one of the 116 countries he has visited, John Paul II can have a powerful, concrete impact not only on the conduct of millions of Catholics but also on the unfolding of world events. In his moral vigor, he too is a revolutionary force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash Of Faiths | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...atavistic as Katie's castration fantasy. Let us elevate the discussion. What's interesting about this capsized fairy tale is what it tells us about sexual paradigms. The old paradigm in a case like this is Miss Havisham, in Dickens' Great Expectations. Miss Havisham had been left at the altar many years before. She stopped the clocks at the moment of abandonment. She shut herself off and lived ever after in the ruins of her nuptial hope. She trained up the lovely young girl Estella to take her revenge upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE, MISS HAVISHAM | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...groom's withdrawal) that Tasos obeyed his existential impulse and fled? Did Prince Charles have a similar impulse on his way to St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981? ("The hell with it, I just can't go through with this!") What if he had left Diana at that altar? No wedding, therefore no years of misery? On the other hand, no Wills and Harry? No bulimia, no "New" Diana? No Dodi? No paparazzi? No crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE, MISS HAVISHAM | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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